[governance] Announcing the First Arab IGF

tijani.benjemaa at planet.tn tijani.benjemaa at planet.tn
Tue Feb 14 14:29:03 EST 2012 

Hi Qusai,

 

Thank you for the update. I do wish great success to the Arab IGF.

 

You said that all participants from all stakeholder groups were involved in
the open consultation. I think that this was true to a certain extend. A
very large portion of the Arab civil society wasn’t involved, neither
informed. Perhaps the origin of this deficiency came from the fact that
Beirut was organized by ESCWA which scope is limited to its geographic
region (West Asia). The African part of the Arab region is thus excluded
from its interest.

 

I do wish that in the future, this situation will not happen again, and that
all Arab civil society activists will be invited to participate.

 

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De : governance-request at lists.igcaucus.org
[mailto:governance-request at lists.igcaucus.org] De la part de Qusai AlShatti
Envoyé : mardi 14 février 2012 17:28
À : khaled koubaa
Cc : Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro; governance at lists.igcaucus.org
Objet : Re: [governance] Announcing the First Arab IGF

 

Dear Khaled:

We wish that you were there with us in Beirut. The open consultation were
conducted in an open transparent inclusive multistakeholder process were all
participants from all multistakeholder groups actively engaged in an equal
manner in discussing the Arab IGF and in drafting the outcomes of the open
consultations. I don't have the list of final participants but all
stakehlders groups from the Arab World were represented. Actually we
requested the ESCWA and LAS before the meeting to ensure a multistakeholders
representation in the open consultations. A public announcement was made for
this purpose. Furthemore when the open consultation was requested by the
Arab ministers of communication, they requested that it should be conducted
in a multistakeholder format. 

 

We look forward for your participation in the Arab IGF and its process.

 

Regards,


Qusai AlShatti

On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 4:57 PM, khaled koubaa <khaled.koubaa at gmail.com>
wrote:

Hi Qusai,
Could you please share with us the list of participants at that meeting in
Lebanon. 
I have real concern with contnuous oversight of some gov-organizations of
the Arab IGF without real multistakeholders involvment.
Thank you,

Khaled Koubaa

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Le 14 févr. 2012 11:41, "Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro"
<salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro at gmail.com> a écrit :

 

We warmly congratulate this development and look forward to including this
in our Calendar.

On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 12:26 AM, Qusai AlShatti <qshatti at gmail.com> wrote:

Dear Colleagues:

I would like to take the opportunity to announce the establshment of the
Arab IGF (AIGF). The first meeting of AIGF will be organized by Kuwait
Information Technology Society which will be held in Kuwait on the first
week of October 2012. I am attaching the AIGF announcement. 

 

Announcement of

The endorsement of the Arab Internet Governance Forum (AIGF) process

A Multistakeholder open consultation meeting to discuss the launch of the
Arab Internet Governance Forum (AIGF) was held during the period of 31/1 –
1/2/2012 in Beirut, Lebanon. The open consultation was organized by the
League of Arab States (LAS), the United Nation Economic and Social
Commission of Western Asia (ESCWA) and the Council of Ministers of the
Republic of Lebanon. The open consultation was sponsored by Kuwait
Information Technology Society and RIPE NCC and was attended by the IGF
secretariat. More than 50 participants representing stakeholders from
governments, private sector, civil society and regional organizations in the
Arab World attended the open consultation and engaged actively in discussing
the importance of an Internet Governance Forum for the Arab World. 

The open consultation was carried based on the request of the Arab
Telecommunication and Information Technology Council of Ministers (ATICM) to
seek feedback from various stakeholders on the need for an Arab IGF. The
ministers requested it after receiving the outcome of an expert group
meeting that was organized by the ESCWA in October 2010 which emphasized on
the need to have a dialogue on Internet Governance with relevance to
stakeholders in the Arab World. 

During the open consultations, a strong consent emerged on the need and the
importance for the Arab IGF especially with the turn of events in the region
and the major role of the Internet in these events. A report recommending
the establishment of AIGF was drafted by the participants and forwarded by
the LAS Secretariat to the Executive Bureau of the Arab Telecommunication
and Information Technology Council of Ministers (ATICM) on 2/2/2012, who
welcomed the outcome, endorsed it and recommended the active participation
of all stakeholders, including governments, in the Arab IGF process.

The participants in the open consultations focused also on the goals of the
AIGF and its structure. There was consent to adopt a structure similar to
the IGF’s current structure with a secretariat and a Multistakeholder
Advisory Committee (MAG). A proposal was made by Kuwait Information
Technology Society to host the First Arab IGF in Kuwait in early October
2012 and a proposal was made by the Republic of Egypt National
Telecommunication Regulatory Authority to be the AIGF secretariat. There was
an agreement and consent on both proposals by the participants. It was
agreed that a public announcement for the MAG membership will be made to
give the opportunity for all stakeholders in the Arab world to express their
interest to participate in it. 

The open consultation recommended that the AIGF should:

·         Focus on discussing public policies related to Internet Governance
especially in the areas of access, stability, security and development.

·         Facilitate the exchange of information, best practices, knowledge
and lessons learned by involving experts, technical community and Academics.

·         Gather different opinions and build consensus for unified Arab
views on priorities and on mechanisms to respond to Arab countries needs
related to Internet governance issues.

·         Discuss emerging issues and present recommendations on it.

·         Build and develop capacity in Internet Governance as well as
improve the participation of all stakeholders to benefit from all possible
resources of knowledge and expertise.

·         Communicate globally the Arab positions and enhance the Arab role
in formulating Internet Governance policies.

·         Outreach with the Internet Governance Forum and other regional
IGFs with purpose of exchanging knowledge and expertise.


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